Tag: Extended Scenes

It seems the world is made up of two kinds of people. There are those that absolutely love and adore Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, and those that think their brand of "anti-comedy" is awful, unfunny and, in some instances,…  Read More

The found-footage monster movie (a subgenre of a subgenre if there ever was one) is, at best, a hit-or-miss breed of film. Troll Hunter, now on Blu-ray from Magnolia Home Entertainment, is a hit. In the 2010 Norwegian film, a…  Read More

On its surface, Hostage seems like your formulaic cop thriller and that wouldn't be a far off notion. There's been no shortage of films using the hostage angle as a narrative device, and in that respect, this film is no…  Read More

Visual effects gurus The Brothers Strause bet their limited budget on Skyline's deadly aliens attracting moviegoers into buying tickets with hypnotizing blue lights and human vacuum spaceships in scenes right out of a video game. They lost that bet and…  Read More

Action/comedy hybrid films work when there's natural chemistry between the leads and neither the action nor comedy take away from one another, as in Mr. and Mrs. Smith with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Lionsgate's Killers, the first and I'm…  Read More

Digging into another Universal classic monster franchise for additional earnings was only a matter of time after Universal's reimagining of The Mummy into goofy popcorn adventure films turned into a highly successful trilogy. Where those films felt new and fresh…  Read More